eBay’s response to this junk is to ban all active content starting in 2009. No Javascript or flash. Only a subset of html tags will be allowed. I imagine the object and iframe tags will be blacklisted. See eBay’s active content plans.

eBay has at least two automated checks for policy violations. One runs when you submit your listing, the other runs before your new listing gets indexed.

I recently submitted a listing just to verify the eBay policy violation message on our listing tool, but it actually passed the first check. Then I got notice within an hour that the listing was removed due to a policy violation.

It was titled, “Chanel counterfeit”.

All kinds of words are blocked, like “.cookie”.

Back to your question on “rover.ebay”. There is currently only one listing that contains this phase in the description. What bravosixx is doing would not appear in the description. They would have to run the object and check the HTTP headers to detect it.

eBay says they are not trying to catch affiliate T&C violations with the new active content policy. They are trying to stop identify theft.